Bias
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bias
nounUK /ˈbaɪ.əs/ US /ˈbaɪ.əs/
C2 [ C usually singular, U ]the action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence your judgment:
The senator has accused the media of bias.
Reporters must be impartial and not show political bias.
There was clear evidence of a strong bias against her.
There has always been a slight bias in favour of/towards employing liberal arts graduates in the company.
Unconscious bias (= that the person with the bias is not aware of) can influence decisions in recruitment, promotion, and performance management.
[ C usually singular ]the fact of preferring a particular subject or thing:
She showed a scientific bias at an early age.
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- The radio station was said to have a strong left-wing bias.
- Have you noticed any bias in the reporting of the Middle East situation in the media?
- There was a clear racial bias in the selection of candidates.
- The teacher seems to have a bias towards the girls in her class.
- This is a clear example of the bias found in historical accounts of the war.
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bias noun (CLOTHING)
[ U ] FABRICS specializeda direction at an angle across the threads of woven material:
The dresses in his new winter collection are all cut on the bias (= in a diagonal direction across the cloth).
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bias
verb [ T ]UK /ˈbaɪ.əs/ US /ˈbaɪ.əs/-s- or UK also -ss-
to cause someone or something to have a bias:
The judge ruled that the information should be withheld on the grounds that it would bias the jury against the accused.
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(Definition von bias aus dem Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
bias | AMERIKANISCHES WÖRTERBUCH
bias
noun [ C/U ]US /ˈbɑɪ·əs/
an unfair personal opinion that influences your judgment:
[ U ] They vowed to fight racial bias in the school.
[ C usually sing ] Does news coverage reflect a reporter’s bias?
bias
verb [ T ] US /ˈbɑɪ·əs/ -s- | -ss-
The judge withheld the information on the grounds that it would bias the jury.
(Definition von bias aus dem Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
bias | BUSINESS ENGLISCH
bias
nounUK /ˈbaɪəs/ US
[ C, usually singular or U ]the fact of allowing personal opinions to influence your judgment in an unfair way:
In her view, none of the interview panel had shown any bias.
gender/racial bias a federal law prohibiting gender and racial bias in employment
bias against sb/sth The email suggested a clear bias against American products.
bias in favour of sb/sth The company showed a marked bias in favour of employing men.
[ C, usually singular ]the fact of preferring someone or something:
bias towards sb/sth In general, investment trusts have more of a bias towards emerging markets, including the Far East.
[ C or U ]the fact that information is not correct because of the method used in collecting or presenting it:
In the market research there was a bias in the sample of people who were selected to give their opinions.
There is a need to build in safeguards against statistical bias.
[ C or U ] FINANCEthe fact of prices, etc. increasing or decreasing:
Interest rates are set to have an upward bias in the next 12 months.
(Definition von bias aus dem Cambridge Wörterbuch Business-Englisch © Cambridge University Press)
BEISPIELE of bias
bias
Second, the high rate of follow-up participation reduces the risk of bias due to selective attrition.Aus Cambridge English Corpus
The degree to which the bias or variance is reduced will in turn affect the rate by which the model's error will decrease.Aus Cambridge English Corpus
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attributional biasComponents of hostile attributional bias include a tendency to blame others for one's negative outcomes and not to blame the self.
bias resultThe first is a sampling bias resulting from respective exclusion criteria of the studies from which patients were drawn.
cultural biasOr is it simply that the language reflects a traditional cultural bias?
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